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St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
Aged badly
I liked the part where Rachel and Ross have an argument, and Chandler makes a witty remark, and then Joey says 'How you doin...?'
Oh wait, wrong show. Stereotypes....the yuppies, the kookie screw-ups, the neurotic, the little man, all here, so insufferably smug, as predictable as night follows day. Formulaic contrived American nonsense. I'm old enough to remember it first time round. Judd Nelson's face is a fist magnet, he was no good in this or The Breakfast Club. Why can't any of them DRINK PROPERLY! Why do they hold the glass like a baby's bottle? God these acting kids were indulged, surrounded by people telling them how great they were. Wrong. Rob Lowe's career high was Wayne's World. Someone thought this was a masterpiece. Wrong, it's dross.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Funny then, funny now, why are snowflakes trying to jump on a bandwagon and do it down?
I don't need to 'review' it. There's an easily followed story, a simple plot where desire for revenge drives a person to do *anything*. You'll see what I mean. There's no transphobia, a person being trans is NOT MOCKED fun at FOR BEING TRANS! It's a plot point explaining how far a person might go to to achieve revenge! It could have been anything, and if anything is wrong, it's the fact they used it as a weak device to get Sean Young out of her clothes and display her undies. The movie is a vehicle to showcase Jim's lunatic gurning. It's funny. He's funny, in this movie. Get over yourselves. Enough of the virtues signalling.
The Last Man on Earth (2015)
It starts off well as they all do but deteriorates quickly
Hmmmyeah but it's trying too hard with the whole cringe comedy thing and sometimes that's just best left to Brits. It starts out ok but peters out quite quickly and some of the running gags should not have been allowed to run as long as they did. I've never heard of Will Forte but I he's SNL right? His bumbling mumbling schtick is a direct Pound Shop (Dollar Store) lift of Ron Burgundy. I don't find SNL at all funny, clearly Will Forte thinks he's funnier than he actually is. And why does everyone live in the same street when they have the WHOLE CITY of Tucson or indeed Anywhere to choose from? Don't make sense does it. The episode where the guy flies the plane is ree-diculous. Kristen Wiig (equally unfunny) shows up in season 3 when it looked they might have a winning show. It's rubbish. I've wasted too much time ranting about it. Steer clear.
Airspeed (1999)
A worse film was never made
This is without doubt the worst aviation disaster movie ever conceived. I thought Horizon Line was bad but this has scraped the bottom of the barrel. Why or hey did the producers not consult even the lowest hours pilot to at least attempt to inject some realism into the movie? It's ludicrous. And when I watched on on Prime, only 7 factual errors had been submitted. Every scene contains one or more. There is not one scene that could not be ripped apart for it's total lack of attention to detail or realism. It's woeful to the point of laughter and then despair. What a load of total tripe. Delete it.
Horizon Line (2020)
A gaffe per minute. Suspend your disbelief and your brain.
You don't need a pilot's license to mock this movie. It is so full of holes and gaffes that I couldn't roll my eyes far enough back. Where do I start? Letsl's start with a technical one. How about why wasn't there suddenly massive amounts of drag when one of the two victims climbed OUSIDE on to the wing strut of the aircraft? How about why didn't they feel the effect of being outside in 130mph wind? How did she not get blown off the top of the wing?? How does a 2 litre bottle of rum turn into 5 gallons of avgas accord to the fuel gauge? Why, if the pilot before he died not change frequency, weren't they instantly answered? Why, from the height they were flying, in beautiful clear visibility, could they not see the islands they had been flying towards or at least another one? The islands around there are quite closely grouped. Why did the aircraft not immediately start to lose altitude when the fuel ran out? Why did the prop not windmill as she didn't feather it? The island they see finally must be five miles away yet so if they gliding they sre descending, by the time they saw it they would have been almost in the drink. Why did the yoke shake and shake when they are luckily approaching the island? There is no physical stall warning stick shaker on that model. How did they make 50 feet last 150 feet? Etc etc. Rubbish. Avoid.